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...Alice W — n in the essayl. The dream children toll him back to his sole self when they announce, "The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing, less than nothing . . . We are only what might have been. " In the novel Ann is the title character, Lamb becomes Allan...

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...while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding till nothing at last but two mournful features were...of Alice , nor of thee , nor are we children at all ... We are nothing ; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.' The dreams were...

...they were but dreamchildren who might have been, but never were. 'We are nothing,' they say to him; 'less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and we must wait upon the tedious shore of Lethe, millions of ages, before we have existence and a name.'...

...quietly alone in his bachelor armchair, watching as his dream children recede, listening as they say "We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children...father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams" (172). The fact that these children are the narrators imagined life with Alice, whom he had loved,...